Spring Statement Discussion (link to documents here)

Anniebeau

new petition on the DPAC website

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/723991

noonebelieves

ONLINE PROTEST by Disability Rebellion (a new DPO) on 1 May 2025 -Please join!(See the excerpt from X and further details about the group, including campaigning material, below.)

I’m a member of this group, and they are very welcoming to all our thoughts and ideas.

“On May 1st, Disability Rebellion will hold an online protest - to support the groups who are attending the May Day protests that day, online.We will ask members to post as much as they can on social media that day in support of Disability rights. When writing posts that day, please add the hashtags: #MayDay, #TaxTheRich, #WelfareNotWarfare and #DisabilityRebellion.For campaign materials, if you wish, you may download these to share that day with the hashtags.CAMPAIGN MATERIALS “

You can find full details on how to get in touch with Disability Rebellion here .

In Solidarity ✊

noonebelieves

Please take a moment to read the attached response from the Disability Activism Society, which follows the Government’s official reply. Let’s all do our bit -sign and share this parliamentary petitionwidely. Reaching 100,000 signatures will help trigger a vital debate in Parliament.

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(You can find the full Government response just below the petition link.)

Protect Disabled people who cannot work from planned cuts to benefits

jul1aorways

Hi Everyone 😊

Due to having had some very difficult external circumstances affecting my life and that of my partner in recent months I have made the decision that I contribute less to this community.

It certainly means that I will be around just not as much as I was. I have ME/CFS, an anxiety disorder and depression and the events that have happened have all made my health conditions a lot worse.

You may have read the good news that my partner (who is also disabled) and I had. With him being pension age and the fact that I am not having my next PIP review until pension age, myself means we are exempt from the cuts.

Although we are really relieved, we still had to go through the same scenario as you are all doing until Timms announced that exemption a week ago.

Knowing that was an act of calculated cruelty is nothing I take personally but it is still having a very negative effect on me, despite doing all I can to not think about it.

That has bought everything to a head unfortunately so I am doing my best to make my life easier. However, I do not want you to think that I won't be here to help you fight these appalling decisions because I will, just not as much. ✊

I do hope that normal service will resume shortly on the forum. Things seem to be improving.👍

I send you all my very best wishes especially @noonebelieves @pinkrose and @secretsquirrel 😊

noonebelieves

Please stand in solidarity against the proposed Disability Benefit Cuts

Sign these petitions and Share it widely. Back all these petitions calling out this injustice. Let’s send a powerful, united message: We will not be ignored.

Do not scrap the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) -Parliamentary Petition 

Halt Government Cuts to Disability and Low-Income Benefits -Change.Org

Halt Further Limitations on Disability Benefits by Labour -Change.Org

Halt the Proposed Benefit Cuts -Change.Org

STOP THE DWP’S WAR ON DISABLED PEOPLE -Change.Org 

In Solidarity ✊

FeistyPigeon

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1008493#Comment_1008493

Thank you Albus : ))) xx